🧠HOW TO: Function While Waiting On Bad News
How to Function While Waiting on Bad News is a grounded survival guide for one of the most mentally exhausting experiences a person can face.
Waiting on court dates.
Waiting on medical results.
Waiting on job decisions.
This book is not about positive thinking or pretending everything will work out. It is about staying functional while your life feels paused and the outcome is out of your control.
Written from real lived experience, this ebook breaks down why waiting feels so destabilizing and gives you practical tools to get through it without losing yourself.
Inside this ebook you will learn how to:
• Stabilize your nervous system during prolonged uncertainty
• Stop catastrophic thinking and mental spirals
• Maintain daily structure when motivation disappears
• Protect your identity when you feel judged, evaluated, or powerless
• Function through anxiety without needing to feel calm
• Prepare for outcomes without living entirely in the future
• Keep your life moving while the answer has not arrived
This ebook covers three of the most psychologically intense waiting periods:
Court and legal decisions where your future and reputation feel judged
Medical results where your body feels unsafe and every symptom feels louder
Job and opportunity decisions where your future feels frozen and uncertain
Functioning does not mean feeling okay.
It means surviving the wait without self destructing.
If you are stuck in limbo, exhausted from checking your phone, replaying conversations, or living in constant tension, this book was written for you.
This is a practical guide for functioning in the middle of uncertainty when reassurance is unavailable and answers are delayed.
By Christopher J. Standish Jr.